Re: Parasitic Computing

From: Ian Jones (ian@dsl081-056-052.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net)
Date: 01/01/02 

From: Ian Jones <ian@dsl081-056-052.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net>
Date: 01 Jan 2002 10:00:30 -0800

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osiris@deltaville.net (Michael Erskine) writes:

> My earlier post was made to get people to look into the concept, read
> what they found and form an opinion.
>
> This is exactly what I was referring to and I believe it was in either
> Dr. Dobb's or LJ that I first read of it... a month or so ago...
> > > Or maybe http://www.nd.edu/~parasite
[...]
> At some point this technology will become a reality and no joke.
> Essentially we are looking at method of attacking massively parallel
> problems upon a vast scale, what remains to be done is make it
> practical.

Considering some poor schmoe just got thrown in the clink for
installing distributed.net clients on his company's network (and
rightfully so) I think we can predict the response...it will be
pursued as simple theft even if it does no harm.

Now one of these days someone will manage to attach a profit motive to
distributed computing and if it's properly implemented and can
guarantee additional return on investment it might catch on.

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